[split] PSA: Hate Speech (discussion of video etc)

[Angrboda]

Just to make it clear for someone who asked this earlier... was it boru?

That's like saying that no one is confused about the provocative use of miniskirt's possibility of resulting in rape. (not sure about the grammatical correctness here, but I hope the point gets through)
It's not senseless rape... it's provoked, clearly!    

Right.  Consider the eerie similarities between miniskirts and the n-word:

-Miniskirt wearers were taken from their homes and sold into slavery.

-Miniskirt wearers were treated no better than farm animals for 400 years.

-Since brute force and lynchings are no longer acceptable, the miniskirt vote is repressed by gerrymandering and voter ID laws targeting people in miniskirt-heavy districts

-The term 'miniskirter' has such vile connotations that it is (almost) universally shunned as being unusually derogatory, defamatory and dehumanizing.

-The term 'miniskirter' (sorry to keep using the word without censoring) has bigots, racists and longskirters constructing long, convoluted, insane arguments as to why they should be allowed to use it.

-Secret and not-so-secret societies exist for the express purpose of denying civil rights to people in miniskirts.

-Miniskirt wearers are disproportionately imprisoned and given harsher sentences than longskirters.

Yeah.  They're the same.

Boru

They don't have to be "the same" to be analogous. Whether the differences are relevant to the similarities and the claimed similarity matters in determining whether it is or is not a valid analogy.

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I say you are endorsing violence through victim blaming, so shame on you!

I'm not saying it's ok to say the word, given the shitty past it represents and the far from ideal present. But I'm saying that accepting violence as a response to hearing the word is not the best attitude that society can take on its way to doing away with the racist intent with which it is often (but not always) used.

You can say I'm endorsing violence all you like, it won't make it true.  You have either missed or chosen to ignore the bit where I said that I would have no problem if the young men in the video were brought up on charges (personally, I probably would have thrown a punch at 'punk-ass motherfucker', but that's just me).  If I were truly victim blaming, I would be contending that the young men who beat up that idiot did nothing wrong.  That's not the case.

Victim blaming is about the assignment of responsibility to the victim. It doesn't matter if you also assign blame to the perpetrator as that's a non sequitur.